1 in 7 Americans are food insecure, which means they are often hungry with no food to eat, yet we produce enough food to feed every American two times over. That’s about $165 billion worth of food that is not being eaten. So where’s all that extra food? Well it’s in our dumpsters and it’s in our landfills!

Not only is it a complete shame to dump this perfectly good food when we could be feeding our fellow Americans but it also causes a massive negative impact on our environment. When we waste food we also waste the water, energy, fossil fuels, and time that it took to produce it. Then we waste resources in transporting it to the stores and then again we waste precious resources in transporting it to the landfills. Then the food rots in the landfills and emits Carbon Dioxide, which is a leading contributor to climate change. Food waste is the root of many of our greatest social issues.

We need grocery stores to start practicing responsible business and start caring about people and the planet, not just profit. Grocery stores need to stop dumping and start donating to non-profits like Feeding America and the thousands of others out there that can take donations of excess food and get it to our fellow Americans in need. And the food that is no longer able to be donated should be composted and the packaging recycled.

The foods there. The resources are there. And the law is on our side with the Good Samaritan Food Act that waves liability of grocery stores and restaurants and encourages them to donate their good edible food.

Before you are eleven short films that can bring you up to speed with our national and global food waste crisis. Maybe they don’t encompass exactly everything you need to know about food waste but they will inform you on every aspect of the issue from the staggering waste statistics and the affect that has on the earth and people to examples of what people just like you are doing to get involved and the many solutions that are already in place but need to expand. The films add up to about 45 minutes and you’ll scroll away from this page highly informed and ready take action to reduce food waste in America!

With thousands of passionate individuals currently working on this cause we are on track to drastically reduce food waste. Be a part of this revolution!

Peter Lehner ·
40 percent of the food we produce in the United States goes uneaten. No matter how local or organic it is, if nearly half our edible food is ending up in the garbage, we’re not doing something right.
Much of this food gets wasted at home, and I recently blogged about simple...

46 min ·
Edgars protest is probably the most pacific protest in the world. As long as you see sustainable living in an ecovillage as a revolt. The former permaculture teacher from Peru has been living in nature for over 20 years and now he has it all; a warm shower, a washing machine...

74 min ·
In the summer of 2011, two young Maritimers, Justin Cantafio and Ryan Oickle, departed on a journey that would take them across Canada and back in just under four months. We left from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and travelled as far as the Discovery Islands Archipelago of British...

3 min ·
This film tells the story of a South Los Angeles edible garden planted in a surprising spot, a food desert. Ron Finley, its planter, constructed the garden the way he wishes his neighborhood could be.

2 min ·
WHAT’S ORGANIC ABOUT “ORGANIC?” rings the alarm for the need to develop an ecological consciousness. The film illustrates that the organic food debate extends well beyond personal choice and into the realm of social responsibility.
Each of the film’s characters is intimately...

44 min ·
FRANKENSTEER is a disturbing yet compelling documentary that reveals how the ordinary cow is being transformed into an antibiotic dependent, hormone-laced potential carrier of toxic bacteria, all in the name of cheaper food.

Paul Mahony ·
Despite what many of those who advocate meat-eating would like to believe, humans do not sit at the top of the food chain. In any event, it’s a food web rather than a chain, due to the many complex interactions involved.
An article commenting on our position in the food web...

4 min ·
Go Green, Go Vegan is a short clip about a movement of volunteers promoting the vegan lifestyle in Taiwan. They offer vegan lunch boxes to the younger generation in different schools and universities to offer sustainable solutions to inspire teenagers for green actions.

3 min ·
This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S.

9 min ·
In this 9 minute animated short film, Poor Johnny doesn't like "healthy" food. What could possibly persuade him to eat all his "veggies"?
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7 min ·
Think about it: None of us called for genetic manipulation of seeds. Not one of us said, yes, this new technology will benefit me, my family, and my community. Yet today most of us are eating them, while kept completely in the dark as to the hazards we may be facing - for...

3 min ·
The authors of our BPA in food packaging study explain what BPA is, why we're concerned about it and how eliminating canned and packaged foods from five families' diets lowered their BPA levels in just three days.

92 min ·
A heart-stopping new documentary, A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as mini Chernobyls. In...

36 min ·
Remixing is a folk art but the techniques are the same ones used at any level of creation: copy, transform, and combine. You could even say that everything is a remix. To support this series please visit everythingisaremix.info/donate/

3 min ·
The Food is Free Project is creating a repeatable model of growing food and community. It is our vision and wish to empower you with the knowledge and know-how to transform your block and neighborhood step-by-step. Using salvaged materials we are building front yard...

90 min ·
KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom -- corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivete, two college...

Vandana Shiva ·
My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about...

Greg Hanscom ·
Agenda 21: It’s the biggest threat to your freedom, and unless you regularly attend yahoo-filled local planning and zoning meetings, you’ve probably never even heard of it. Until recently, this 20-year-old United Nations plan to promote “sustainable development” was known...

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